All 19 Uses
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Starship Troopers
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- Ace answered as I could have expected — Ace should have had my spot but he didn't want to give up his squad; nevertheless he didn't fancy taking orders from me.†
Chpt 1 *nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
- Nevertheless the home defenses were beginning to fight back, co-ordinated or not.†
Chpt 1
- They treated it as a dull routine, which I'm sure it was; nevertheless they scrutinized every document, they took our fingerprints — again!†
Chpt 2
- But not to express surprise it is what I expected of you except, possibly, the additional and very personal bonus that you chose the M. I. This is the sort of consummation, which does not happen too often, that nevertheless makes all of a teacher's efforts worth while.†
Chpt 6
- Nevertheless — wake up, back there!†
Chpt 6
- — nevertheless the disheveled old mystic of Das Kapital, turgid, tortured, confused, and neurotic, unscientific, illogical, this pompous fraud Karl Marx, nevertheless had a glimmering of a very important truth.†
Chpt 6
- — nevertheless the disheveled old mystic of Das Kapital, turgid, tortured, confused, and neurotic, unscientific, illogical, this pompous fraud Karl Marx, nevertheless had a glimmering of a very important truth.†
Chpt 6
- Nevertheless, liberty, even at Camp Currie, was no mean privilege; sometimes it can be very important indeed to be able to go so far away that you can't see a tent, a sergeant, nor even the ugly faces of your best friends among the boots ....not have to be on the bounce about anything, have time to take out your soul and look at it.†
Chpt 9
- The Lieutenant was father to us and loved us and spoiled us and was nevertheless rather remote from us aboard ship — and even dirtside ....unless we reached dirt via a drop.†
Chpt 10
- Nevertheless guard duty was a privilege.†
Chpt 10
- Nevertheless I had signed up in order to win a vote.†
Chpt 11
- But nevertheless I knew at last what Colonel Dubois had been talking about.†
Chpt 11
- Nevertheless I knew I would take sergeant if it was ever offered to me.†
Chpt 11
- Your mother's death released me for what I had to do ....even though she and I were closer than most, nevertheless it set me free to do it.†
Chpt 12
- Nevertheless, it is instructive to observe the details.†
Chpt 12
- Nevertheless, let's assume that the human race manages to balance birth and death, just right to fit its own planets, and thereby becomes peaceful.†
Chpt 12
- In fact, he did both and nevertheless assigned me as platoon leader of the first platoon of the Blackguards.†
Chpt 13
- Nevertheless "George" jobs soaked up about two hours every day — there were so many.†
Chpt 13
- Nevertheless, when I was let out of bed the first week I was in the Argonne, after loafing and brooding a day I borrowed some books from one of the junior officers and got to work.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(nevertheless) despite thatBased on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 was just stated, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrast and but.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)